Automorphism group of octonions is closed in $O(7)$.

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So far I have understood that the group of automorphisms of the octonions is a subgroup of $O(7)$. I want to understand how it is a Lie group using the lemma that closed subgroups of Lie groups again are Lie groups. How does one see that this is a closed subgroup of $O(7)$?